degeneracy

degeneracy is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
2. adjective. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
3. noun. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

   "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"

   "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"

   Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction

4. noun. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

   Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration

Synonyms

corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction, decadence, decadency, degeneration

Common word forms

degeneracies

Words from these letters

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